Why FIFA 2013 Is The Best Football Game Ever

POSTED BY Heather Johnson, UPDATED ON January 28th, 2024
Why FIFA 2013 is the Best Football Game Ever

The latest version of FIFA, FIFA 13, owes a lot to International Superstar Soccer. Konami’s franchise took football games to new levels and forced gaming giants EA to improve. However, Konami hasn’t been able to keep up and, although PES 2013 is better than last year’s attempt, it is not expected to offer much resistance to FIFA 13, which is not just the best football game out this year, but the best football game of all time!

 

The Graphics

FIFA has always had outstanding graphics, it’s one of the things that sets it apart from its competitors. The players move and run like genuine footballers and, although Wayne Rooney may appear to carry fewer pounds, the digital versions look just like their real-life form.

EA Sports, the team behind the game, are well known for their attention to detail and this year they have outdone themselves with all the new haircuts, celebrations, kits, and stadiums added and updated.

 

The Gameplay

Playing FIFA is almost like watching real football. The gameplay is slick and more like real life than ever. Gone are the days of players running either forward, sideways, or back, with the improved controls players can go in any direction.

There is also great depth to the modes that you can play, with a choice of 13 leagues from across the globe as well as a revamped manager and Be A Pro modes. The commentary is also worth a mention with some new lines added for Andy Townsend and Co. to peddle out.

 

Improvements

FIFA is a bit expensive, however, with all the new features and tweaks you won’t need any other games to entertain yourself with, so you can just round up all your old ones and sell computer games for cash to raise some funds that way.

There is new first-touch control, which will really separate the Sunday League players from the League Champions, both in terms of the players on the pitch and those behind the controls.

Load screens have also been tweaked and instead of just trying to score from one-on-one situations, which could get a bit repetitive, you now have the chance to hone your skills with different training drills.

The match engine is now looser than any of the previous incarnations of the games meaning that the gameplay is more unpredictable than ever, so you can’t just get through games using the same set of moves. Artificial intelligence has also been revamped with your own teammates now making better options for you.

 

Licenses

Of course, as the ISS showed, a game doesn’t need licenses to be great, in fact, the spoonerism names added a great deal of charm to the series. However, while decoding Roberto Larcos, Mario Balotelli, Saffidge and Belasi could be fun, the real names on FIFA make it feel like the real deal and help to keep it above the rest in the market putting it up there with the best soccer games ever.

3 Comments

  1. Anna says:

    FIFA has great graphics but the gameplay is better on PES but that is my opinion, anyway thanks for this share.

  2. Tamara says:

    FIFA in my opinion always was better than other football games. Especially in graphics there is no football game close to them in this segment. Game-play in the past was not very good but in past few years they have improved significantly. Licenses for me also are important i i want the name of the clubs and players to be real.

  3. Brian Johnson @ Bioshock Infinite Songbird says:

    I remember the first time, i’m so impressed with FIFA is when EA for the first time, releases FIFA 2012. I think that game has improved in many aspects comapared to the predecessors, especially in term of gameplay. That game suddenly becomes my best option for playing soccer game on console, putting my PES 2012 aside, although i still played it in specific occasion when my friend came around.

    And after FIFA 2012, EA then brought this series to the next level with much better gameplay and graphics. I’m even surprised that my friend in the college who is a PES maniac, suddenly has converted to FIFA soccer game. I think that is a quite impressive achievement from EA. Hopefully, EA will better this series even more and improve the graphics to be much more real then in the previous series.

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